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Quotes About Dress

I have always found it amazing that in exchange for paper I can get a book or a dress, that the stock market actually rises and falls on rumor - mere talk - and that people trade in something called Futures, as if such a thing were possible.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.
~ Jessica Chastain
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
~ Susanna Moodie
Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
~ David Bowie
Despite her dress, which was of a tremendous tartan, she diffused the pale authentic radiance of a spirituality most high, most simple.
~ Max Beerbohm
I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.
~ Meg Cabot
I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature.
~ Colin Kaepernick
I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
~ John Rocha
This woman who was a style icon basically lived in a little cotton dress all her life - a simple life.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Stone had decreed no dinner dress, only suits, or as the British preferred to call them, "lounge suits.
~ Stuart Woods
The last dress in the wardrobe was loosely wrapped in thin tissue paper that tore away at the slightest touch. Isabel was intrigued by this one, a cocktail dress in peach-colored silk, embellished with a line of crystal bugle beads around the neckline, a fitted bodice and flaring skirt. In the glow of the bedside lamp, the dress was luminous and shimmering with a life of its own.
~ Susan Wiggs
Emshwiller stepped out of the pickup wielding a matte-black rifle with a large scope (it was actually an airgun that fired 6.26-mm slugs). She was wearing her most elegant blue dress and a backward baseball cap. "I wanted to look freaky," she says.
~ Joshua Davis
The blood that covered the front of her dress hit her square in the eyes, like a ripe tomato hurled at her face. Forming a giant, angry fist, it reached into her throat and dragged forth a low, unwilling scream.
~ Joy Fielding
The way we dress affects the way we think. the way we feel. the way we act. & the way others react to us.
~ Judith Rasband
It is interesting to note that immodesty in dress was not solely a problem of the 1960s till today, but it continued through time as other vices which the Church never failed to warn of and condemn. And it was a constant theme in pagan cultures, while Christianity always promoted dignity in dress.
~ Julia Black
had much luck, and she was down to the last one: a pale-green silk dress with a vine of tiny embroidered pink roses meandering around the bodice
~ Julia London
He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned... ...But how could he manage to burn her dress? She'd have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself...
~ Julia Quinn
Have you anything that is ready to wear today? I'd like nothing better than to be rid of that thing she has on now. You can use her measurements to fashion a few more." "I have one or two I could quickly alter to her size. In fact there is one right there." She pointed to a pale yellow day dress draped over a dressmaker's model. Dunford was just about to say that it would do when he saw Henry's face. She was staring at the dress like a starving woman.
~ Julia Quinn
You're wearing breeches," George said with a heavy sigh. "Of course you're wearing breeches." "I would hardly have attempted the tree in a dress." "No," he said dryly, "you're much too sensible for that.
~ Julia Quinn
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.
~ Faith Hunter
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair." ? Faith Hunter, Skinwalker
~ Faith Hunter
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
~ Fanny Kemble
Ella viene vestida Con un traje de alcaldesa, De papel de chocolate con los collares de almendras. She comes dressed In the robe of a Mayoress Made of chocolate paper with an almond necklace. El viento vuleve desnudo la esquina de la sorpresa, en la noche platinoche, noche que noche nochera. Naked, the wind turns the corner of the surprise in the silver-dark night the night benighted by nightfall.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
No, no. I was on America's Top Model. It was good. Yeah, I was up there, I wore a dress. It was awesome.
~ Blake Lewis